They had one of these at my local Ford dealership when it first came out and it sat on the lot for at least 6 months.

I’m super confused with this:

Horse shit. 124 Abarth is the perfect road trip car for this dude. Just pack light enough, there’s that’s life lesson for you. I don’t even know how it makes any financial sense to fork out for something that’s $30k.

S2000 prices have dropped. S2000 is the answer

This, I legally drive my 62 Austin Healey Sprite everywhere, and know it’s a very unsafe car in an accident. Doesn’t even have a collapsible steering column.

My neighbor builds hot rods. His latest project literally has the gas tank as the rear bumper. And yet that would be perfectly fine to drive on RI roads.

I tried explaining to a buddy at work why the new Humvee is lunacy and requires a commercial license in other countries, and he couldn’t wrap his head around it. 

We have our safety regulations so backwards. We regulate personal safety but care little about mass safety. i.e. you can’t drive that, YOU could be killed in an accident? Versus - Of course you can tow a 40 foot trailer with your 12 foot tall truck with no prior experience because YOU will be okay if you crash.

This is very dumb. The smallest state should absolutely embrace the smallest trucks.  It’s called branding, you dummies!

They basically already do! I have been on several flights in the last year or so where I distinctly remember having to break the rule and go to the bathroom with the light on because they basically never turned the damn light off. Plus side was I didn’t have to wait in line, but most of the time they have the light on…

Belive it or not, you can appreciate cars while also disliking the fact that a car show laundered Lost Cause propaganda.

Might be the single worst combination of words I’ve ever seen. 

OK, serious question: do rental cars count?

Yup.

I said it above but here is my rebuttal

I check one big bag every time I go on a major trip and I have yet to have any kind of trouble. I don’t need to worry about fighting with overhead space, so I’m not in any rush to board. I don’t need to tiny-size my toiletries, I can just throw them in the checked bag. I don’t know why this is a big deal for people.

well said. and they turned, stopped and handled like crap when they were not broken down.  

its really bad when the 1/4 Mile is quicker than the 0-60. I took a drive in a friends VW Diesel once, made my Chevette feel like a Corvette.

Grew up in the 70s/80s when a sub-TEN was hot. And a 6-sec 0-60 was supercar territory.

I will just leave this here: https://www.zeroto60times.com/1980s-car-0-60-specs/